do you guys really think that a product will be crap at hour 0, ok at hour 100 and start sounding great after hours 250? ok let's play that game for educational purpose. then why do I have to be bored with that crap for 250hours? I paid a dude to get the advertised sound, if I don't get it when I buy the stuff then I don't want it.
that's like going to buy a tree, the guy gives you seeds for the same price and tells you to wait 10years for best results. yeah? well then you go grow the damn tree yourself and I'll go buy a grown tree somewhere else thank you!
that's my take on a dude telling me to wait 250hours for my amp to sound the best. you keep it, I don't want sound in 250hours, I want it when I pay for it.
pro talking about burn in, usually give you the right amount of time for the return policy to expire. because why not? if you believe it in the end it's all good. if you don't, he avoided a return. it cost nothing to a seller to advertise burn in, it's a win/win claim for him. real or not.
audiophiles talking about drastic changes in a gear after burn in are usually talking about how much they adapted to the signature, like your eyes adapt to tainted sunglasses and you slowly stop noticing that the all scenery is sepia because of the colored glass. most likely you even forgot you had the glasses on. most of the time someone telling you all about how important a change the burn in did to a product, is just a guy who never took the glasses off and now believes that good neutral vision is sepia. and chances are that he will now blame people not using sepia sunglasses for not using the "real neutral" vision.
(you all know one of those guys in audio right?).
some products are bound to change over time, and those with mechanical movements probably much faster than the rest. and for some, obviously the sound will also be affected. but my brain tells me that the bigger the change, the more I should be concerned about durability and how it will probably not stop changing when hitting the promised T time. to me the idea that something isn't stable enough to keep about the same sound after a week of use, isn't something I'm sure I want to own. because however I look at it, change is likely to be another word for decay. so little change is very very fine with me.
and if you don't like a product after 2days with it, you might get used to it after a month, but don't expect the burn in to be the reason why you now love it. we adapt to anything much faster than most people think. I give myself 3weeks to give a final judgment on a product, but it's to get rid of the silly happiness bias we all fall prey to when we get ourselves a new toy. not because I expect the gear to have burned in. my mood, tastes and perception change much faster than any gear. take the latest song you discovered and like, now listen to only that one song in repeat when you listen to music, and that for 250hours. then tell me if you still feel the same way about the song at the end(well, if you didn't already kill yourself to make it stop).
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What amuses me about proponents of burn-in is that they always claim it makes their equipment sound better, but never worse.....funny that.
I've been burning in my own body from the day i was born,but I've reached a point where not much is getting better with time ^_^.
